We define the projective stable category of a coherent scheme. It is the homotopy category of an abelian model structure on the category of unbounded chain complexes of quasi-coherent sheaves. We study the cofibrant objects of this model structure, which are certain complexes of flat quasi-coherent sheaves satisfying a special acyclicity condition.

In this article, we extend the notion of FP-injective modules to that of Cartan–Eilenberg complexes. We show that a complex $C$ is Cartan–Eilenberg FP-injective if and only if $C$ and $\text{Z}(C)$ are complexes consisting of FP-injective modules over right coherent rings. As an application, coherent rings are characterized in various ways, using Cartan–Eilenberg FP-injective and Cartan–Eilenberg flat complexes.

Given a left Noetherian ring $R$, we give a necessary and sufficient condition in order that a complex of $R$-modules be DG-injective. Using this result we prove that if $(K_i)_{i\in I}$ is a family of DG-injective complexes of left $R$-modules and $K$ is the $\aleph_1$-product of $(K_i)_{i\in I}$ (i.e. $K\subset\prod_{i\in I}K_i$ is such that, for each $n$, $K^n\subset\prod_{i\in I}K_i^n$ consists of all $(x_i)_{i\in I}$ such that $\{i\mid x_i\neq0\}$ is at most countable), then $K$ is DG-injective.